Evening Reading: I Don't Care About 3D

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• It hasn't even started. : WhatIsThisFor
• You're an .avi, what do you know? ;D : DM7
• No. It's one more tool in the tool kit. It will continue to be used where appropriate for script, visio... : Wheatloaf
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  I said the same thing about 3D movies, I guess I was wrong there. : hillemania
  • I actually like the new 3D movies. They're not as annoying as those damn red and blue glasses that used t... : Koral06
• Yeah, like rumble, the touch screen, and the motion controller. It'll never catch on. : capt tripps
• The easiest test to see whether something is a fad or not is the "The Matrix" test. It's the ultimate vi... : locater16
• since we view the world in 3d (2 eyes) it makes sense that we video our media in 3d as well. It's like st... : headbone
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  lmao no. this is a goldmine. this is cross-selling heaven, getting people to refresh devices and players ... : Downforce
  • Your opinion on this is null and void Mr. Black Bars are evil! : cltcprd
  • Which makes me sad... we've hit a plateau and now we're doing our best to hide so that everything has to ... : Toth21
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  I stand corrected. If it's done well, just like anything, I'll watch it. It just seems it's done poorly... : avi2000
  • That's true. The gulf between Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D and Avatar is miles wide. Jim Camer... : midgetherder
• nah, old fogeys like you who can't get with the times will die eventually : RikiTiki2
• We should go back to 2D games. : yautja
• Dude, this is the beginning of holodeck technology. : silent prophet
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  Hell yeah, just like color and sound died : ColoradoCNC
  • exactly. : biskits
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    Those were improvements. 3D is just something different that isn't as great as people make it out to be. : NastyJack
    • growing pains until it is an improvement. the first sound movies had horrible quality : RikiTiki2
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      How come adding depth to the image isn't an improvement? : aeg1x
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        because it's not perfect in v1 unlike when we added color and went straight to HD and surround sound. : derelict515
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          This isn't my argument at all. I think the 3D in Avatar was done incredibly well. I think the technology ... : NastyJack
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            That analogy was horrible, NJ. I wrote up some stuff to say why it isn't relevant, but decided not to pos... : famine101
            • I don't agree with a single thing you just said. : NastyJack
          • You are contradicting yourself now. Why is color better than black and white, but pop up books are just ... : hillemania
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        If you take a painting and make it a relief sculpture, it isn't necessarily an improvement. It's just dif... : jipey
        • but black and white paintings are unacceptable right : aeg1x
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          doesn't mean you should denounce sculptures as the latest fad that will die quickly : RikiTiki2
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            Did I do that? I said it's not as great as it's made out to be. Which I think is true because people on t... : NastyJack
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              avi2000 did, i'm just ranting against the general "3D is a stupid fad" attitude : RikiTiki2
              • I should read the OP of the threads I'm posting in more :( : NastyJack
              • Fair enough. Unfortunately I think studios are (unwittingly) doing their best to make it a fad by churnin... : jipey
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          That's a poor comparison. Fine art is all about exploring ideas within a restricted form (be it painting,... : ayesel
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            Cultural obsolescence here I come. If every movie turns into 3d I'm going to go to a lot less movies. It ... : Toth21
            • I don't need Saw VII in 3D, I was going to see it anyway. : dognose
          • Your definitions are confusing; one could easily say some films are focused on exploring ideas within a r... : jipey
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          While that may be true, that doesn't make paintings better than sculptures or sculptures better than pain... : thetangent
          • and there are still movies that choose black and white or close to it as a stylistic choice, but the vast... : derelict515
        • There's probably an argument to be made that movies and TV are more about reproducing reality than a work... : DinK
      • I wish there was an internet back when color was introduced to TV and film so we could read all the compl... : mikecyb
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  Why are people always hatin on Nintendo for tryin to innovate? : jojoeasy
  • conservative : RikiTiki2
• Depends wholly on whether or not it is well implemented. : retarded talking dinosaur
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  Stop complaining, the 3d DSi game that was put up on youtube looks hella cool : ianlippert
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    Seriously. If you don't see the potential of a 3d hand held after watching that, then you are broken. : Reeves
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      Are you talking about the one where the perspective moved as the handheld did? In that case I'd call it immersive/awesome control of the camera moreso than "3D handheld."
      
      For all the arguments there are about parallax and relative motion being important, "3D" to people now basically means a stereoscopic image with static depth perception, and not a standard 2D display with a really innovative and immersive camera control scheme.
      
      FWIW on a handheld I think the head/motion/perspective tracking thing is probably more interesting than a little stereo 3D type display. (but at the same time if I'm thinking of the right video, it wasn't necessarily what they'll be doing on the new handheld from what others were saying)

      Mar 23, 2010 11:20pm PDT
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      Are you talking about the one where the perspective moved as the handheld did? In that case I'd call it ... : DinK
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        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE I'm pretty sure that's all the 3DS is going to be : Reeves
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          Well like I hinted at below, the shack story says Meanwhile, Yomiuri Shimbun writes "it is believed that : DinK
          • That would be interesting.. I'm really interested in seeing this thing in action now : Reeves
        • Everyone keeps saying it, but that's not it at all. They're using a 3D panel. : Conan
      • Should have gone up to read the link first. Sounds like they're talking about an actual stereo 3D screen... : DinK
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  Just wait for the 3D porn... at that point, the world will embrace the technology... with both hands... a... : Nullzero
  • agree absolutely lol : avi2000
  • it's been done. I'm sure you could dig up a few movies with shacksearch. : Agrona
• But I judt bought this $3500 3D HDTV with $200 glasses : snuff
• My girlfriend's friend told me I needed to get away from my computer games and step into the 3d world. I... : JamesArhy
• i see the current 3d evolving into something incredible : anthonybean
• i thought this thread was about shoehorning 3d where it doesn't belong, like RTS and Platformers : MamiyaOtaru